Betrayal: German Churches and the Holocaust - Softcover

"After more than fifty years, the wounds of the Holocaust remain---as do the questions. These important and insightful essays remind us of Christian complicity in the Holocaust and the difficulty of coming to grips with that complicity. The contention of this volume---that the German churches played a far more important role in the Nazi atrocities than has been hitherto realized---is convincingly documented here in a readable and provocative way." ---Marc H. Ellis, Baylor University

Susannah Heschel (Editor)is the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (University of California Press).

Contributors: Shelley Baranowski is Professor of History at the University of Akron. She is author of The Confessing Church, Conservative Elites, and the Nazi State (Edwin Mellon Press) and also The Sanctity of Rural Life: Nobility, Protestantism, and Nazism in Weimar Prussia (Oxford University Press).

Kenneth C. Barnes is Associate Professor of History at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of Nazism, Liberalism, and Christianity: Protestant Social Thought in Germany and Great Britain 1925--1937 (University Press of Kentucky).

Doris L. Bergen is Associate Professor of History at Notre Dame University. She is the author of Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (University of North Carolina Press).

Micha Brumlik is Professor of Education at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of Der Anti-Alt (Eichborn Verlag).

Guenter Lewy is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Smith College. He is the author of The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany (McGraw Hill).

Michael B. Lukens is Professor of Religious Studies at St. Norbert College. He is Director of the Killeen Chair of Theology and Philosophy and he is a Research Fellow at the Institut fr Europische Geschichte in Mainz, Germany.